Inspirational quote on love:
“… it’s a blessed thing to love and feel loved in return.”
– E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
with an inspirational photo of a red rose to celebrate Valentine’s Day.
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Horses in Giza Desert by Anna Serio. Public Domain photo.
For the last couple of days, I’ve been wondering if the Sahara desert could have been Atlantis? It turns out that at one time the greatest desert on earth was under the sea.
Atlantis was supposed to have plummeted into the sea around 9000 B.C. according to Plato.
Therefore, the question is, if Atlantis sunk under the sea 11,000 years ago, could the Sahara have risen from the sea sometime after that? According to an online Encyclopedia of the Earth article:
“Only a few thousand years ago the Sahara was significantly wetter, . . .”
Then, the next question is: Was the Sahara significantly wetter a few thousand years ago because of greater precipitation or because it had risen from the sea?
The article goes on to say that, in truth, the Sahara had once been under the sea.
“During the Mesozoic much of North Africa was under water and marine deposits were deposited.”
The Mesozoic includes the time the dinosaurs ruled the earth and ended 65 million years ago.
Therefore, as much as I’d to have discovered something really exciting–that the Sahara could have been Atlantis risen from the depths of the sea--it is not so, since the land of the Sahara rose long before Atlantis sank.
It was an interesting theory, but it doesn’t hold much water (couldn’t help myself).
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Ruins of the ancient city of Carthage, Tunisia , by Patrick Giraud, 8 Sep. 2006, Wikipedia Commons
According to “modern-day Indian Jones” David Hatcher Childress, the harbor of ancient Carthage resembled the harbor of the capital of the mythical lost city of Atlantis. We know the description of the Atlantean harbor from Plato’s Timaeus/Critias. Carthage, ancient and modern-day city with a population of about 20,000, is situated on the southern shore of the Mediterranean Sea in Tunisia on the northern end of the Sahara Desert.
Two large, artificial harbors were built within the city, one for harboring the city’s massive navy of 220 warships and the other for mercantile trade. A walled tower overlooked both harbours.
Childress had said that the Sahara Desert is a possible location of the mythical Atlantis, especially considering that the harbor of ancient Carthage resembled that of Atlantis. Nonetheless, it doesn’t seem possible , that ancient Carthage could have been associated with Atlantis, considering that the Sahara desert is a desert and Atlantis was a huge island/continent.
However, Carthage is along the Sahara and the Sahara is a dried seabed. Here’s a possible scenario: Atlantis plunged into the sea around 9,000 B.C. Underwater, the ruins of Atlantis became a seabed. When the land rose, the seabed dried and became the Sahara Desert.
I know it’s a long shot, but, when was the Sahara a seabed? After Atlantis plunged into the sea? It deserves further research, doesn’t it?
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Mt. Tahat, Hoggar, Algeria could have been the location of Atlantis. Photo by Olivier Maurice. Public Domain
“Real-life Indiana Jones” David Hatcher Childress proposes that Atlantis may have been in the Sahara Desert. He says that “usually the Tassili and Ahaggar Mountains in southern Algeria, Tunisia or both, “are the locations in the Sahara desert chosen as likely locations of Atlantis.
“When the French colonized North Africa they soon discovered a lost world existed in southern Algeria and that the ancient harbor of Carthage was an exact miniature of the capital of Atlantis as described by the Egyptian priests…”
Unlike Atlantis which was supposed to have been destroyed by inundations of water and earthquakes, the Sahara is supposed to be a dried up seabed. Nonetheless, an interesting theory.
However, I find it fascinating that the ancient Carthaginian harbor was a miniature of the harbor of Atlantis, I assume, with concentric circles of canals. Could ancient Carthage have been a colony designed as a replica of the original?
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During one of my events in South Carolina, one of the participants asked, “When do you start the next prayer?” I answered, “Wait. You’ll know.”
That’s how it’s just happened for me. A week ago, a couple of days after finishing my 40-Day Manifestation Prayer, I remembered something in my past I still felt bad about. I knew immediately that this was an opportunity to start a new 40-day prayer, this time for forgiveness.
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Jupiter and four of its moons. A Wikipedia Commons photo
If you want to feel the wonder of Creation, just take a look up at the nighttime sky when its full of stars. Even in a city today, you can see Jupiter right overhead. It’s presently in Gemini. When I was little, my father would set up his telescope in our driveway and get Jupiter in view. I marveled then and I marvel now to see the moons around Jupiter. If you look through a telescope for a couple of nights, you’ll see that the moons are moving. That is amazing!!! These four, easily visible moons, are called the Galilean moons, since Galileo could also see them. That’s amazing too!!!
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A view of the night sky near Sagittarius, enhanced to show better contrast and detail in the dust lanes. The principal stars in Sagittarius are indicated in red. From Wikipedia Commons
Today, the moon is in Sagittarius. That means it’s aligned with the Galactic Center. If you want to look at the Galactic Center, just look at the moon and you’ll be looking in the right direction. To see the moon, you’ll have to wake up early, because the moon isn’t visible until early in the morning around 5:00 a.m.
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Carol Chapman answers questions afterr her event at the Unity church in Charleston, SC, sponsored by the local Edgar Cayce study group
When I speak to groups in various places, I enjoy meeting the many wonderful people who are are interested in the topics I present. For example, in Greenville and Charleston, South Carolina, among the people I met were:
* A young woman who works at her passion, an interpreter for deaf children
* A nurse who teaches classes on nursing
* A businessman, interested in my Yucatan Travel DVD, who is embarking on his passion: Turkish Adventure Tours
* A woman from Lithuania who is interesting in healing prayer
* A real estate construction estimator
* A young woman who brought her delightful six-year-old daughter who loves spirituality topics
* A former banker who now helps companies by reducing their utility costs
These are just some of the people at my recent events. They are a diverse, very interesting group. In common, they hold an interest in furthering their spiritual development. I feel fortunate to have met them.
During my present American Southeast Tour, I have been talking on a new topic: Have Your Heart’s Desire based on the information in my new book of the same name.
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